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This story is about Prospero, the real duke of Milan and a magician, and her daughter Miranda.

They have been in a lost island for 12 years because his brother Antonio conspiring with Alonso, the king of Naples, usurped his position and left them in the sea. They survive because Gonzalo leaves them supplies and Prosperos book, which are the source of his magic and power. Prospero says, has Fortune at last sent his enemies his way, and he has raised the tempest in order to make things right with them once and for all. Prospero has a familiar spirit Ariel that is his chief magician agent that before Prospero arrived was trapped by a witch and was proper who let him free and kill the witch Sycorax. In other part of the island Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio y Gonzalo, others shipwreck survivors, give thanks for their safety and each of them focus in a different activity. But Antonio persuade Sebastian to kill Alonso and become king of Naples but when they were sleep Ariel makes Alonso to wake up with a shout and avoided the kings murder, then Ariel came back with Prospero while Alonso and his party continue to search for Ferdinand. Prospero puts Ferdinand to work hauling wood. Ferdinand loves the work because he was in love of Miranda. Miranda, thinking that her father is asleep, tells Ferdinand to take a break. The two flirt with one another. Miranda proposes marriage, and Ferdinand accepts. Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban are now drunk and raucous and are made all the more so by Ariel, who comes to them invisibly and provokes them to fight with one another by impersonating their voices and taunting them. Caliban grows more and more fervent in his boasts that he knows how to kill Prospero. He even tells Stephano that he can bring him to where Prospero is sleeping. He proposes that they kill Prospero, take his daughter, and set Stephano up as king of the island. Stephano thinks this a good plan, and the three prepare to set off to find Prospero. They are distracted, however, by the sound of music that Ariel plays on his flute and tabor-drum, and they decide to follow this music before executing their plot. Alonso, Gonzalo, Sebastian, and Antonio grow weary from traveling and pause to rest. Antonio and Sebastian secretly plot to take advantage of Alonso and Gonzalos

exhaustion, deciding to kill them in the evening. Prospero, probably on the balcony of the stage and invisible to the men, causes a banquet to be set out by strangely shaped spirits. As the men prepare to eat, Ariel appears like a harpy and causes the banquet to vanish. He then accuses the men of supplanting Prospero and says that it was for this sin that Alonsos son, Ferdinand, has been taken. He vanishes, leaving Alonso feeling vexed and guilty. Prospero accept Ferdinand as the new husband of Miranda but Prospero then asks Ariel to call forth some spirits to perform a masque for Ferdinand and Miranda. The spirits assume the shapes of Ceres, Juno, and Iris and perform a short masque celebrating the rites of marriage and the bounty of the earth. A dance of reapers and nymphs follows but is interrupted when Prospero suddenly remembers that he still must stop the plot against his life. Prospero used Ariel to bring Alonso and the other before him. Prospero confronts Alonso, Antonio, and Sebastian with their treachery, but tells them that he forgives them. Alonso tells him of having lost Ferdinand in the tempest and Prospero says that he recently lost his own daughter. Clarifying his meaning, he draws aside a curtain to reveal Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess. Alonso and his companions are amazed by the miracle of Ferdinands survival, and Miranda is stunned by the sight of people unlike any she has seen before. Ferdinand tells his father about his marriage. After this Prospero return to Italy and became the duke again and let Ariel free. And all live happy ever after.

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